From the Candidate Statement by Beloved Gift-Given Quail, a candidate for city council, in the 1992 Voter Information Pamphlet provided to voters by the City of Santa Monica, California:

Age: 41 years, 6 months, 20 days
Occupation: Homeless Healing Tenant Activist Poet Singer Songwriter Performer.
A Pennsylvania high school graduate, studied two years at Pennsylvania State University, plus additional credits from University of Southern Colorado, Los Angeles City College, United College of Business (Santa Monica). A survivor of repeated false, illegal, contrived evictions, and civil-rights abuses by public officials and police in several states and several jurisdictions in Los Angeles County. Exposed abuses of farm-workers in Florida, abuses of clients by mental-health administrators in Colorado, police abuse in Pennsylvania, corruption in courts in Los Angeles, Pasadena, Glendale; also police and prosecutorial and real estate corruption. Homeless, tenant, and mental-health client advocate, Pasadena to Santa Monica. Set precedent acting as own attorney against Los Angeles landlord-tenant court in 1985. Received numerous beatings; subjected to repeated threats, burglaries, thefts, evictions since. Worked for successful candidates in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, New Jersey. Awarded public speaker, published poet. Numerous radio and television appearances. Truly non-partisan, non-factional, independent, innovative, creative. Experience as laborer, as photocopier, in law firms; as self-published and other-published writer; as farmworker, food-service worker, messenger. Speak some Spanish. Worked in U.S.C. Olympic Village in 1984. Healing and hoping for healing. Let us bless earth's creator.

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